The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators, Fort Mill, SC, bestowed this year's top Metallized Product of the Year Award, named in honor of PFFC's former publisher Peter Rigney, to Graphic Packaging Intl.

What would Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, say to the converting industry? He might say, "Control your own destiny or someone else will." The converting industry seems to be taking Welch's advice. As evidence, here is a sampling of what some of the industry's leaders are doing to control their own destinies.